Hello Everyone, Here are some important notes for everyone participating in the CaneWalk this year, so please hold onto this e-mail. We will be assisting families with obtaining canes, including assisting with sizing the canes and ordering as needed. There maybe situations where the child already has a cane of a different type, or the cane that was ordered does not arrive in time for lessons, so in these situations please do your best to make it a productive lesson. Below are the details provided to me by Melissa Riccobono. For Teaching Canes: Instructors should email freecane at nfb.org With NOPBC Teaching Cane as the subject line. They will need to include the parent's name and address, and, of course, the length of cane. If a cane is needed for a child, the parent should fill out the Free White Cane Request Form on the NFB website. (The instructor could do this on the parent's behalf, if the parent agrees. The NFB wants to make sure we get accurate information about the child who is receiving the cane.) If the instructor knows a Free White Cane form was filled out for a child, and the parent also wants a teaching cane, the instructor should include this fact in the email when he or she orders the teaching cane. The instructor might say something like: John Smith is the parent of Lindsay Smith, and he filled out a Free White Cane form for Lindsay this morning. We would appreciate it if these canes could be shipped together. We cannot guarantee that they will arrive together, but we will do our best to make this happen. One of our board members, Kimberly Banks, will be making learning shades for families who need them. If your instructors could ask families if they need learning shades, or if they all ready have them, that would be fantastic. Some families may all ready have a pair or two. If they do, great! If that is the case though, the instructor should send a quick note to Kimberlybanks1984 at gmail.com If Kimberly does not hear a family does not have shades, she will automatically send each family two-one for the child, and one for the parent. Thanks, Melissa